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A -Crisis Cliaplw on GoYeri]iiiciit. y 

We -arc 111 thv* mulst of ont^ of thos« awful rnses, wlieo vindio- 

tivenoss. calJoJ "civil ^'mei-iiiuont,' -stiiiids aakcdi^ revealed, so 

tliat all who have eyes cjin phiinly *.;>c tii« ijorrihlo jiionster. 

• Nt»v"s the-tihie to toil the tnitli— the'w/* ,fe £<--/A— and " shame tlia 

devil." Now's Llie tiiSe t.o*bi-ike aa effuclnal blow fur rea/ freidnm, 

Gov'w 11 meats are trimnpUanfc moiiopones of luurck'r, robbery, 
swiridliui^-, axid all that is atrocious and detestable. Ever since the 
beg.iiuiiiig, they liave forced maiikiad to kilt <»r prejiare and hold 
tiieiuseVvcii iji readiness to kill each otlier by thuusarids and even 
inillions at a time, and by the cruelest iiiui uiost destructive means 
that spite can devise. 

All the so-called religions the world has j-et " er per kneed"" have 
solemnly declared that " Almij^hty <:;!<)d '' upljolds these £:overu- 
nients, all the moralists tliat have had any practical influence havo 
sanclioned that dt^'c{aration,a:id all the idSdcls and {uditical ecouo- 
mists h?ve f^aid Amen: soir.e of the iniidels nsosfc Hbelously sub- 
stituting the word " Nat(jre" — their miserably narrow comproluiii- 
sion of it--for "Almighty (iod." 

Whenever one of these governments gets conquered and over- 
thrown by another of them, or by internal revolution, (events that 
often ha|ipcn), "Almighty Ciod," tlie moralists, the infidels, and the 
liolitieal economists turn dead against the fallen government. 
Whenever rebellionists murder, ami steal, and devastate so magnin- 
cently that the police cannot put them down, they therebyl^aia 
"belligerent rights;" their murdering, robbing, (tc, <tc. '■:, Uience- 
f(n'Lh considered k'morahk, and enterprising individuals of other 
nations may ^iv-»//.w«6'?/ join them. But these are not half the in- 
ducements that governments hold out to r.n>U.i,<r:e m ntrociouxw/.x ; 
they jtunisii, in the crudest and most disgraceful manner, all the 
scoundrels ilicy can catch and convict, who do not attain that 
excellence; and lliey plan noddy .-to Uial cvcnj man and woman i/iUit 
trtf-llieir Hick at scon-idrc'hm or pay tlie ^.rpcuxcfi of thmc. W/o do. 

The fastest of all governments is l^eniagoguery — swindlingly 
named " I'lective," or " free government" The buiicomest dcma- 
g-ogUery tlie world has ever seen— a rotted-off branch of the most 
Jibominable of monarchies— has just capfc the climax: it has 
spawned an atrociousness far more atrocious than any befoi-e, and 
tliat cannot be surpassed. Una of the principals in amillionor so 
j)f murders, witii robbery and devastation to niateli, struts flaunt- 
ingly wherever he pleases, wMh his inshjnla, (as do all the princi- 
pals wlio are not too proud to stay and associate with their leliow- 
citizens), and the great general wiio was pitted against him writes 
him the politest notes, signing himself "Very rcsp c'fa/iy, your 
ohidtent >>ervn>i(," whilst reimprisoning at hami'nering stone, about 
a hundred escaped convicts, whose "crimes did nol average tho 
ilamage of .$2M ! In demagogueries, the great brigands have to bo 
s.atcd with jd under every year; at farthest, every four years, la 
monarcliies, tiiey are only sated once in a life time. 

The legislature of a single State in the "JNIodel" Dema;roguery 
perjieiraU'd more and viler corruption in the year of grace " fses," , 
than did the most tyrannical monarchy in tiie world. 

But in spite of the murderers, and robbers, and swindlers, and 
imiiostors. and quacks that goveru mankind, liberty has gained 
«9;//e grouml, through tliose only possible iiberators, the i-ccvHsts 
avd firtis'x. It is now manifest destiny that tiiese will iinally rule 
the worhl; and then, freedom will bearm'ili/. It cannot be long 
before ;>,w«;< government runs tlie lengll: of 'ils t(;ther. Unless it 
bioi»s in ivs course, sucli hells as tiie peoiilo of the United States 
Iiope tiieyhave just got f.h:-ough the hotest of, (Mav 5, " 18U5,'") 
will come in such quick succession (hat no one will be at all pru- 
dent in guessing " it won't come in my day." The reins of power 
will then spontaneously fall into the hands of llnisc' who will 
abolish all viiulictivcuess and constraint; mankind will ihni be as 



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freeas the planets in tlieir orbits; " Heaven " \vi!I be realized (n» 
eartii; tlK earth itself will be physically ehaiiG;od so as to iiieel, 
the case, and all thi'throuo-h material development; throuyb 
science and art — the same that has o-iven ua the steandxjat anil 
tlie raili'oad^ The o-reat car of progress speeds on. Noiselessly 
but sure.ly it will raieh its destination. Wealth will then be \n- 
comparably more valuable than it now is, thousands of times n|or(^ . 
.plenty, anil perfectly secure to its individiird owners. Machinery 
will do all labor that is repulsive, and be owned in shaves, by the 
Universal Mutual Guarantee Co. "The I'eople" will dwell its 
l)alaees, splendid as the faith-built " mansions in the skies." A'/- 
the women will be enehantingdy beautiful, all the men faultless, all 
.the children ?•<■«; ansyels. Love will be free and lunversally reci])- 
rocal, "virtue" and "vice" obsolete, all constraint banished, 
everybody completely happy. Between desire and its object, 
there will intervene only the exertioa requisite to impart due 
pleasurableness to possession. Life will last till all clearly \nm-j; 
inable varieties of deliiiht pall on the five senses from repetition. 
Sickness will be unknown. Death itself will be only a welcome, 
painless transit to everlasting forgetful ness. 

All this is clearly preconceived, and therefore must necessarily 
take place. For thought is not absolute, but relative. The im- 
possible, self evidently' cannot be conceived, even prospectively. 
Mentality does not transced materiality, but functionally depenils 
on it, objectively and subjectively. Perfection — " Heaven "—is 
preconceived even by common intellectual faculties; though mis- 
takenly, in toto, as to method. Perfection, therefore, will, self- 
evidenily, be realized. Nature — all which to or in man exists — \3 
not, fixedly, a mere half and half of good and evil. Nature is 
"God," and will prove all-sufficient. 

Hark ye, my felhnv-citizens of the United States. You seem 
■wholly intent on having another patch u]) of old government 
schenies and devices. That patch up won't last fifty years; then, 
or probably much sooner, you'll have a civii war, a great deal 
worse than the present one;' it will be felt both North and South. 
Do voir think it was the enslavement of the Negro that caused thi.s 
war '^ Pshaw 1 It in the enn/aueiw.nt of hniann va/.nre that //"< 
c.maed all the war that haa ever taken, p'a e! And human nature 
can't be conquered ; she is backed up, slowly but surely, by 
A'/nnfhfi/ l'(^'ivr; by the force of all cognizable existence, mar- 
shalled by Airr. 

STUBBORN QUESTIONS. 

1. How much deeper in war debt has the detestable Monarchy 
of Ensland nm in a thousand years, than the "Model llciniblic " 
has in less than a century? Professor Lewis says our war debt is 
not over .$3,00i">,0()0,()t) ); but he don't reckon the state, county, 
city, town, and even village war debt. 

2. Wouldn't it be perfectly true to call every "eledion" a Game 
of Caucus and Ballot Box — aGrand llatUe for the Public Treasury — 
a Stupendous Swindle? Are not the I'eople the mere cards of tin! 
politicians, in playing that game? Do they any more than decide 
for this or that spoil distributor, between wliotn the odds is merely 
the difference between tweedledum and tweedledee? 

;S. If the State Capitol at Albany and the State Prison at Sing 
Sing had changed inmates in "186.5," wouldn t a great act of 
justice have been done? and wouldn't the "dear pco)>le" have 
gained immensely thereby? ami might not this (piesMon have 
been fairly raised wirh respect to the iiiciunbenis of the Federal 
Capitol any time since the commencement of Andrew Jackson's 
administration ? 

4. Were the " angles" who sang "peace on earth and good will 
to men" "heavenly angels' or masked imps of" Hell," '•■ily iift the 
tree In/ itx frn'U? 

h. How much moi-e honorable is war (except war absolutely 
necessary in defence of jnost important rights) than assassination? 
How much more honorable is it to compel, or entice {generally bn 



f.,nna and intorjcailm,) pcac<Tul rnon to hill each oll-r nn-l to bom- 
>^ b-ird iind starve women and children by tlumsaniLs, tiiau to eree|>. 
^«ver so stealthily, behind your sin-le enemy, and stab on'u Imn \n 
^ the back-' What s the dillVvenee between eowanhee and the diltcr- 
's.. ence between our treatment of seeessionists and State prisoners? 
"^ We are educated, and habituated to consider the most cruel and 
o* cowardly assassination as "honorable war !" and to submit to the 
most expensive and abominable oppression that can be imposed, 
X because that oppression is magically surrounded with a make- 
^^ believe of freedom. i <• ii , 

Disdainful of Monarchies, the Great T^epublic syc .phantically 
ape" their relii>-ion, their law, their moralism. She even emulates 
■ their cowardice, in knuckling to cicucro'^ in crime, whilst suvagely 
torturino- and hanging comparative volh'vr, .v/.s in crime. _ Abolish 
this horrid injustice; take the lead in delivering man kind fron. 
the relin-ious, political and m<,rnl. "Hell" in which they have 
always been tormented, and be the phr;/ <■/ Ih^ n:tuw.><, whd-t e.nih 
and 'Lin endnrp. By " whorawing." and calling onrselves a great 
people and all tiiat sort of thing, over such gross injustice, we are 
but preparing a volcano more dreadful than the one that lias just 
spent its worst fury, fi'f/ht >,s mii/hti/ avd wW. prem!.'. 

The distinction'that is made between scoundrels nvdar the law 
and scoundrels ovn- the law; between >' t-rhniunW' &niX off.n>^ve 
"»wr»-iorx " slaps justice full in the face, and kicks right, and honor, 
and mercy, and truth, clean out of court, and stinks most abomin- 
ably of cowardice. ■ 

Let us pardon .\r.L scoundrels, br/h^iuvr! with the henroost bur- 
olars and proceeding thence to pard(m the Secessionists oi ei-ery 
l,,f,d^ and then even those scoundrels at the very bottom of the 
pit of scoundrelism— the i-TTLRr.Y coaaui-r, i/iuby anointed legis- 
L\TORS. Then, let us have a new order of things ; a really 
NEW CONSTITUTION. 
\aTiCLF, I —All constraint shall be abolished ; every man. woman 
and child shall be fully developed or perfected, and be so situated 
as to do exactly as they please. _ ,v • .. . 

Vrtulk II— Con"-ress shall make an appropriation suihcient to 
rear every child born in the United States, in the best manner 
thatMATEiiTAL SCIENCE AM) ART _can_ devisc, aud similarly provide 
for tne mothers, during their lying-in. 

Article III.— Supernaturalism ; all that pretends to go t)cyond 
or 'exceed the powers or laws of nature, is henceforth and forever 
excluded from the domain of government. ■ 

There Fellow Citizens, that's just what's got to be done, and 
there wi'll only be worse and worse " Hell to pay " till it is d'.ne. 
Till just this 'is done, mankind will be worse and worse tormented 
by the reli"-ious political, and moral quacks, who screen themselves 
behind " jTivine Providence," aii:l teach and hdi'taate us to wor- 
ship a personification of their own unsurpassable loolishness and 
villainy, as " Mmighty God." 

"I accept this war as the providence of (xod, says Hardee, 
Secesh General and 1). I)., as reported by the N. Y. Herald. 
Nearly all the Union Generals and D. D.s agree with bnint Uanhe 
on this tremnidou^ point. But just tlnnk of it; just try to tim.k 
that any real "God" couldn t or wonldn t do what " He' wanted to 
do except by means of big guns and little guns and gut-inuuduu-s 
and bralnsplitters, and Libby prison horrors, and bhodAii. and 
honutii j>i7inrr>', and widows and orphans made by the hundred 
thousand, and a million or so of murders, including that of I resident 
Lincoln and more than live billion dollars otiier damage. Why, 
men can do things in /hat way, and the foolishest and wickedest 
men have done just exactly that. WMiat's the use of "Hun ?' 

If the thoolo'^y of General Saint Hardee and his brother tlieolo- 

o-ians in the States north of Dixie be true, isn't it the rankest bla.s- 

phemy to oiler those big rewards for Jeff Davis & Co., and call 

them n,'n-derer. m,d fugitives from ja>-tice ? Haven't they up to the 

■ time of their hegira, acted andcr the " provuknce of God^ What 



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if JcffjinJ his eoITeng-nes sfumfd olfcr to sifrrfrnTi r.. {rrnf (irrv Sf.iid '>« 
ti'id'vcc apdi'int Iheir pihicipii', on condilion of beino- let ciV? 
What would Secrelrtiy Sainton, Oencrul lliirilce, and our othor 
civi! and miiitaiy d<;elur.-i of divinity do ia such a case? .In 
"Onrr.s" name, what vh''/ they do ? 

Tlierc f I've sj>olu'n the bold truth, and I'll bet it v.•^U " sham<> 
the devil " and a jjood maoy of his imps; that " devil,*' the only 
"devil" that ever wag or can be — Iii'uor.mce; alias M.stery; 
alias FooHsiiness ; he is '-ne of the tw ftxeijt O.nn'presenfs wh.' )iv(' 
on balderdash and have vhcJF thrones in the realms of iionsenKe; 
and his iii}j>s, a{! (jf them wiio instif^ate -Any harm worth notieini^. 
are the parsnis, poliijeians, and moralists. Tivcse mi.-erablc 
ivretches are chai-L;-e;d)le with all the woe raaidiind have ever 
endured. 1 wouMu't have a ihonsand billionth- (lait of their guilt 
re^tiri;^ on me, for all the gold in the universe. 

CALVIN BLAKCIIARD, 

A.v.N'oiT.vcBR OP TFiE TJi'r.rcroN of SfiKNeE, I'rokkssok ov Uf.i.tgio- 
PoLiiieAL Pmsics, Ex:'<>.-*rr'>:i of t;ik S'rATres and ])yN.\Mics of (4or> 
Ai.Miurrrv, Advocate kor rij": C'oNSTirirnoN m \>iiKi:sT ix IIcman Na- 
tii:r, ANO llEAr- Mkmh!;[: <H'" Trit: SociiiTV roii AcoLfsnixc Utopia. a\i> 
ITuMDC'G, Asi> Failurk, jSIo. 2J Ax.s SiuiiKT, N'ew Yo:ik, JIav 5, 1805, 
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* Except two. that I will neither name nor fell why. 

■f The American pai-sons, both civil, military, and ecclesiastical, 
have declared that "(Jod " was on .'lo'h xldex during the Secesh 
war. The Chief Priest, or President at the North, claimed and 
invoked "Him" on all occasions, and so did the Chief Priest or 
President of the South, and both wei'e perfectly/ cmmstfut ; for the 
jiarsons' "God" is. as Feuerbach has so cleverly .shown in his 
" EssK.voE •»• Cnr.isiiAvrrv," a m.ike-up of human imi)erfecL:ons. 
and the Avorst of them at that. IJuL this "(unl" always i^ives 
Jinal victory to Ihe party tiiat h.as the most edV'ctive means of 
human slaughter. That party liappens to bi; the least f;uiltyof the 
two in the Secesh war, and so JefV Davis has gone to make the 
best terms he can with the "Devil," Jlay 14. — Jeff, and his fellows 
are captured; oh! what a shameful misfortmie ! Wp shall now 
have to pay thosa big rewanis, and kneel in the very dust to tran- 
scendent crime. Hang Jeff. ? He'll sooner be IVesiOcut of the 
"Model Republic." Look at LEE! 











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